You asked about pivot tables (video)

So many Office customers ask about “pivot table” that we’ve gathered the best answers in this blog post. Most likely, you are looking for information about how to create a PivotTable report that can help summarize and analyze your data. Or you already have your data in a PivotTable report and are looking for information about how to pivot it.

If you use an earlier version of Excel, you may also enjoy this article Pivot, swivel, and roll by Crabby Office Lady, which provides an interesting overview of PivotTables, those flexible little contortionists of the data world!

Pivot data in a PivotTable report

After you create a PivotTable report, it makes sense that you’ll want to pivot the data to view it from different angles. Unfortunately, to better match the actual functionality that “pivots” PivotTable data, we used a different article title for a while–we called it “Change the layout of a PivotTable report,” which made it difficult to find when you were looking for information about pivoting data.